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People are exposed to different theories that explain leadership. Experts like
Maslow, Smith, Barnard, Deming, Mayo, Fayol and Weber have explained the
concept of leadership comprehensively and have analysed its countless
characteristics.
Autocratic Leadership
Bureaucratic leadership
Charismatic leadership
The charismatic leader leads by infusing energy and eagerness into their team
members.
The democratic leader listens to the team’s ideas and studies them, but hold the
responsibility to make the final decision. Team players contribute to the final
decision therefore increasing people satisfaction and ownership, feeling their
input was considered when the final decision was taken.
Laissez-faire leadership
The people-oriented leader is the one that, in order to comply with effectiveness
and efficiency, supports, trains and develops his personnel, increasing job
satisfaction and genuine interest to do a good job (Fiedler, 1967).
Servant leadership
The servant leader facilitates goal accomplishment by giving its team members
what they need in order to be productive. This leader is an instrument employees
use to reach the goal rather than a commanding voice that moves to change.
Task-oriented leadership
Transactional leadership
The transactional leader is given power to perform certain tasks and reward or
punish for a team’s performance. It gives the opportunity to the manager to lead
the group and the group agrees to follow his lead to accomplish a predetermined
goal in exchange for something else. Power is given to the leader to evaluate,
correct and train subordinates when productivity is not up to the desired level and
reward effectiveness when expected outcome is reached (Burns, 1978).
Environmental leadership
The transformational leader treats each follower as an entity and considers his
individual talents before deciding what suits him to reach higher goals.
A transformational leader applies such individual considerations by:
listening to each follower’s needs and concerns
expressing words of thanks or praise as a means of motivation
making public recognition of achievements and initiatives